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Position and Direction KS1

This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.

Coloured Squares

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

Use the clues to colour each square.

Tangram Tangle

Age 5 to 7
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If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?

Cover the Camel

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

Triangle Animals

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?

2 Rings

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?

Turning Man

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

Turning

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?

En-counters

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

Olympic Rings

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

This problem is intended to get children to look really hard at something they will see many times in the next few months.

Walking Round a Triangle

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

This ladybird is taking a walk round a triangle. Can you see how much he has turned when he gets back to where he started?



 
You may also be interested in this collection of activities from the STEM Learning website, that complement the NRICH activities above.
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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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